Edit* A DD? OH my goodness. THANK-YOU so, so much to everyone! This is incredible and now it's all thanks to you beautiful people for inspiring me. Many thanks to *EternalRC, ~Art-Recale, *FlirtingWithInsanity and ^Elandria - this means more than words can say.

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In this tutorial: Overview of all icons and the basic functions in the GIMP menu. Brush and colour palette basics Backgrounds Skin tone painting and colours How to paint Eyes How to paint Noses How to paint Mouths How to paint Hair Layer modes and highlights. Contains bad humour.

Okay, as promised, I have brought you my MASSIVE digital painting and GIMP tutorial. I have spent the last week putting together this monster for you guys. I'm sorry its so big, I just had so much I wanted to say. And at the end of the day, you can choose what you read. It is basically just a overview of everything so you can read as little or as much as you want.

I have used my latest digital painting Rapunzel to demonstrate painting the facial features and background.Additionally I have added a realistic imaginative example of painting features.

If you have any questions, pleaaasse comment, some of my wording may be a little vague or chatty, so I'm happy to clarify, or try to answer other questions.

I'll give you the exact model. If you want a link on BestBuy or something I can give that also. It's called "Wacom Intuos Creative Pen and Touch Tablet". It's around $100. It's a little pricey, but I think it is more worth than a $30 tablet that I used to have that broke down after 2 months. I recommend this brand.

Sorry to butt in, but I was just passing by and noticed your question on lag and GIMP. Have you tried going into view and unchecking 'rulers?'. I find that having the rulers displayed makes GIMP lag with my tablet something chronic but it works fine with them off...

This is SO useful...thanks so much for making this!!!! I just downloaded GIMP recently, had no idea how to actually paint nice pictures without manipulating a photo, until I saw this...it all makes sense now! And your artwork is excellent too, just like the Disney movies yet with an added artistic style, I can see why this got a DD! Thanks again!

Thought I should drop by and say how much this tutorial helped me learn the basics of digital painting! Were it not for your efforts I would still be flopping around like a fish out of water trying to figure out just where to start and what to do Blending my colors together smoothly was where I was having the most trouble, but tis trouble to me no longer.

Best of all you are a GIMPer just like me! Glad to have someone who speaks the same language

I just wanted to say too that your comment made my day, had been having a rough day with my dog not being well and this brightened my spirits so thank-you! Im so glad I could be of help to you! Much love. Natalie.

Oh thankyou for your wishes, shes doing better this morning which is an improvement on the last few days so that makes me happy! Oh poor kitty! It's hard cause you want to tell them it will get better but they just look miserable. </3